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Practice Relating to Rule 85. The Use of Incendiary Weapons against Combatants
Section A. The use of incendiary weapons in general
VI. Other National Practice
In 1973, with respect to Resolution 2932 A (XXVII) in which the UN General Assembly asked States to comment on the report of the UN Secretary-General on napalm and other incendiary weapons and all aspects of their possible use, Czechoslovakia assured the UN Secretary-General that the competent Czechoslovak authorities were prepared to “exert every effort to achieve a solution leading to the final prohibition of the use of napalm and other incendiary weapons”. 
Czechoslovakia, Reply of 31 August 1973 sent to the UN Secretary-General, reprinted in Report of the Secretary-General on napalm and other incendiary weapons and all aspects of their possible use, UN Doc. A/9207, 11 October 1973, p. 6.